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The Aeneid Virgil
  • Did St. Paul Hate Women and Gays?
As I Lay Dying Neuhaus, Richard John
  • Staring into the Bright Abyss
  • Facing Death: It’s Not What You Know; It’s Who You Know
  • Blinking Before the Abyss: Books About Death
At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years) Karon, Jan
  • A Lesbian, an Alcoholic, and a Jew Walk into a Church
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) Anonymous
  • Homeschooling, Literature, and Grades
Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Current Issues in Theology) Murphy, Nancey
  • Facing Death: It’s Not What You Know; It’s Who You Know
C. S. Lewis: A Biography Wilson, A. N.
  • What C.S. Lewis and Whitaker Chambers Left Out of Their Memoirs
Climate Change: The Facts Moran, Alan
  • Climate Change: Can Science Be Trusted?
The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death Stark, Andrew
  • Is Immortality All It Is Cracked Up to Be?
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature ... America (or at least the Republican Party) Dreher, Rod
  • Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths d'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
  • Is Immortality All It Is Cracked Up to Be?
Darkness at Noon Koestler, Arthur
  • Books to Counteract Snowflake Syndrome
David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) Dickens, Charles
  • Homeschooling, Literature, and Grades
Death On A Friday Afternoon: Meditations On The Last Words Of Jesus From The Cross Neuhaus, Richard John
  • I Thirst
  • Father, into Thy Hands I Commend my Spirit
  • It is finished!
  • My God, My God Why Have You Forsaken Me?
  • Woman, Behold Your Son
  • Today, You Will Be With Me in Paradise
  • Father, Forgive Them
  • Does Your Church Celebrate Passion Week or Passion Sunday?
The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary Milavec, Aaron
  • A 1st Century Guide to Being a Christian
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) Dante
  • Dante was Not Happy, Happy, Happy
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Gwynne, S. C.
  • The Astounding True Stories Behind the Movie “The Searchers”
  • What Is Moral Clarity?
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Harden, Blaine
  • Books to Counteract Snowflake Syndrome
Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution Lamoureux, Denis
  • Did Adam and Eve Exist? Part 2
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion Zuckerman, Phil
  • Young People Leave Christianity For Sex
Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life Winner, Lauren
  • A Lesbian, an Alcoholic, and a Jew Walk into a Church
God in the Dock Lewis, C. S.
  • Books to Counteract Snowflake Syndrome
  • An Intellectual Retreat—That Sounds Like a Treat!
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Hitchens, Christopher
  • What is More Miraculous Than an Adult Who Changes His Mind?
The Good, the Bad, and the Grace of God: What Honesty and Pain Taught Us About Faith, Family, and Forgiveness Roberston, Jep and Jessica
  • Redneck Addicts and Jewish Atheists: The Same Lord Over All
The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ Klavan, Andrew
  • Redneck Addicts and Jewish Atheists: The Same Lord Over All
Gulag Archipelago, The: 1918-1956 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
  • Books to Counteract Snowflake Syndrome
  • Let the Lie Triumph-But Not Through Me
Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander Robertson, Phil
  • Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing Kreeft, Peter
  • What Do We Really Want?
  • C.S. Lewis and Longing as the Key to Perceiving Heaven
  • I Explain What Heaven Is Like
Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice Geraghty, Jim and Edwards, Cam
  • Grow Up, Get a Job, Start a Family
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Vance, J.D.
  • Hillbilly Makes Good and Writes Bestselling Memoir
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem Dreher, Rod
  • Dante was Not Happy, Happy, Happy

What is a Poor Potsherd?

A potsherd, of course, is a piece of broken pottery and is used as a simile in the Bible.
It is also found in this hopeful poem by G. M. Hopkins.
Read more....

Link to That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection

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